In her recent essay â€œOf Hemispheres and Other Spheres,â€ Kandice Chuh suggests that AsianAmericanists explore â€œthat complementary space between Asian American studies, conceived as aâ€˜national perspectiveâ€™ that seeks to understand the link between the national and the global, andhemispheric studies, understood as paradigmatically concerned with the relationship of theAmericas to the local or national.â€ How does Asian American literature change when viewed in ahemispheric perspective? What would it mean to interpret the â€œAmericaâ€ in Asian Americanliterature far more broadly? What might be the effects of adding the north-south axis ofhemispheric studies to the traditional east-west focus of transnational Asian American studies?How might hemispheric studies open up new connections between texts inside and outside theconventional purview of the Asian American? Topics might include comparisons of Asian Americanand Asian Canadian writers (such as Joy Kogawa, Kerri Sakamoto, Fred Wah), Asian Americanengagements with the Caribbean or Latin America (such as Karen Tei Yamashitaâ€™s Through the Arcof the Rainforest), or writing that crosses borders within the Americas (such as Yamashitaâ€™s Tropicof Orange or Bharati Mukherjeeâ€™s Jasmine). Send 1-page abstract and c.v. by January 15, 2009 viaemail to Timothy Yu (tim.yu_at_utoronto.ca).